Test kit question.........

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TamithaSue50

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Parkersburg, WV
I was looking at the 2 test kits I have been told would be the best to buy......TF-100 and the Taylor K-2006C (I think it was).....my question is there are all kinds of additional things you can get with the TF-100.......such as......

[FONT=&quot]pH Meter (Add $14.00)[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Speedstir Magnetic Stirrer (Add $40.00 )[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Borates Test Strips (Add $9.95 )[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Salt Test Strips - Aqua Chek (Add $11.95 )[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Taylor K-1766 Salt Test (Add $27.00 )[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]XL Option (Add $20.00 )[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Standard Sampler (Add $16.00 )

What all are these things and are any of them necessary?

Also with the Taylor K-2006....is that one or the K-2006C better and why?

Thanks......

Tamitha[/FONT]
 
The Speed Stir is a magnetic "mixer" for your test vials. Not required but sure makes testing faster and more consistent. Otherwise you are holding the vial and swirling it with one hand while trying to add drops of liquid with the other. Some folks are more talented at that than others. My arthritis prefers the Speed Stir.

The Salt test kit K-1766 or the TF Salt test kit is much preferred over the strips. Either one, same reagents, different packaging.

XL version of TF-100 is larger bottles of the reagents you use when you're clearing a green pool. Saves running out mid SLAM.

Sampler is just a device to help measure water into the vials. I just use an old syringe sometimes.

Ignore Borates unless you've added them.

The TF-100 is comparable to the K-2006C. The TF-100 has far more reagents than the plain K-2006 so the TF-100 is a far better buy.

Maddie :flower:
 
YippeeSkippy said:
The Speed Stir is a magnetic "mixer" for your test vials. Not required but sure makes testing faster and more consistent. Otherwise you are holding the vial and swirling it with one hand while trying to add drops of liquid with the other. Some folks are more talented at that than others. My arthritis prefers the Speed Stir.

The Salt test kit K-1766 or the TF Salt test kit is much preferred over the strips. Either one, same reagents, different packaging.

XL version of TF-100 is larger bottles of the reagents you use when you're clearing a green pool. Saves running out mid SLAM.

Sampler is just a device to help measure water into the vials. I just use an old syringe sometimes.

Ignore Borates unless you've added them.

The TF-100 is comparable to the K-2006C. The TF-100 has far more reagents than the plain K-2006 so the TF-100 is a far better buy.

Maddie :flower:
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********Thanks for the info and I'm sure that the Speed Stir would work great for me (arthritis and not all that talented) but for $40 I think it's going to have to wait. Been trying to get up the money just for the test kit because I've been fighting a cloudy pool for a few weeks now and have been told the test strips are not helping me any......so just trying to go for the best but also the cheapest way to do it for now************
 
Normally cloudy means algae. It can also happen if you add too much calcium chloride too quickly. But that goes away in a day or so.
 
TamithaSue50 said:
Sooooo I assume that means you can have algae that you can't see? Because I don't see anything green or anything like that and I have scrubbed the walls down.
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Absolutely. By the time you see it, it has bloomed to a all out attack.
 
TamithaSue50 said:
Sooooo I assume that means you can have algae that you can't see? Because I don't see anything green or anything like that and I have scrubbed the walls down.
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Oh, yes.

You probably feel the slime before you see the color. I had a wheelbarrow with some compost residue in it that got filled with rain. So I watched it. It took over a week to grow algae and go green.

It's like frying bacon. Not yet, not yet, not yet, overcooked! Or doing the TA drop titration. green, green, green, pink! But with algae it's dull, dull, dull, green!
 

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